Sentences with phrase «eukaryotic cells evolved»

By using new methods to obtain genome data from microbes that can not be grown in the laboratory, we identified a new archaeal group that is related to the host cell from which eukaryotic cells evolved.

In this weeks» edition of Nature, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, along with collaborators from the USA, Japan, Denmark and New Zealand report the discovery of a new group of Archaea, the Asgard archaea, which reveal important details on how eukaryotic cells evolved their complexity.

Not exact matches

As natural selection kicked in, these bacteria graudally evolved into eukaryotic cells, then small colonies, then multicellular organsims, then pre-Cambrian biota, then crusaceans, jellyfish and, later, fish.

It allows eukaryotic cells to evolve into multicellular organisms that have remarkable structural and functional variation.

By contrast, all eukaryotic cells, which evolved from bacteria and make up all plants and animals, have cytoskeletons that control structure and internal cellular movement.

Other eukaryotic organelles may have also evolved through endosymbiosis; it has been proposed that cilia, flagella, centrioles, and microtubules may have originated from a symbiosis between a Spirochaete bacterium and an early eukaryotic cell, but this is not yet broadly accepted among biologists.

The theory holds that the eukaryote mitochodrion evolved from a small, autotrophic bacterium that was engulfed by a larger primitive, heterotrophic, eukaryotic cell.